School Encouragement Cards

This year I decided to mail the kids in my life cards at the beginning of the school year to encourage them in the adventure ahead! I then gave them a gift card to a local ice cream place because some days just require ice cream!! Each kid got a card that fit them and their grade in school.

Had a couple 2nd graders and then for the Kindergarten and 1st grade I did the one below.

Supplies:
Digital Image/Patterned Paper: Diane's Daydream Designs
Metal Dies: Stitched Circle
Sketch: Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #487

Those kiddos had younger siblings that aren't old enough for school but didn't want to leave them out so they got the ones below. Basically told them to be good and have fun while their older sibling was in school then they could all go for ice cream!

Supplies:
Digital Stamps: Clear Dollar Stamps/Lisa's Doodley Doos (Ice Cream Sticks). I colored them to match the kiddo they were going to.

Then my nephew's and niece (Benedict kids) I adopted when a coworker got hurt 3 years ago got these. The younger are in same grade due to how their birthdays fell on the calendar. The older boy is in 8th grade this year.

This image is special not only for my bright young man it went to but because my husband drew it when he was making a few digital stamps for Clearly Digi Stamps. My nephew is also learning how to draw so extra special to have one of Uncle Patrick's drawings.

Supplies:
Digital Image: DunnitAgain Designs - (Time for School)
Cardstock: Bazzill
Patterned Paper: 

Digital Image: Miss Kate Cuttables (5th & 6th Grade Title) *I just recolored mine.
Patterned Paper: Doodlebug
Embossing Folder:      (stars)

This was the girl version for the older girls of a couple co-workers kids.

SUPPLIES:
Patterned Paper: Doodlebug 
Digital Image: Paper Trail Design (Free Emoji Faces for personal use)
Cardstock: Bazzill 

This card I made several years ago and had extra supplies made into kits but never got time to make them. Well I got them made this year so this one went to several of the kiddos.

Stamps/Images: Sweet & Spicy Digital Image by DeeDee Anderson (Clear Dollar Stamps)
Cardstock/Papers: Cardstock – Bazzill (Yellow base), We R Memory Keepers cardstock, 
Patterned Paper – We R Memory Keepers (Hall Pass)
Accents/Tools: ribbons, stapler, Gina K Designs 1/16 Foam Tape
Techniques: Paper pieced the apple

School Time

OMG does anyone else even have their Making Memories tag maker anymore!! When I started playing with sketch #4 in the Sept Card Sketch Challenge I thought making the circles tags helped them pop more off the patterned paper so that is how this OLD TOOL got dusted off!

CHALLENGES:
1) September Card Sketch Challenge @ Scrapbook.com – Sketch #4 – originally Try Stampin’ on Tuesday Sketch #143
2) September Card Challenge @ Scrapbook.com – bonus category – metal
3) Kitty Bee Aloha Friday Challenge #31 – School
4) Pile it On Challenge #36 – Pencils (must enter the card in at least 2 challenges)
5) Papertake Weekly Challenge – Repeat Repeat. all we want you to do is to use a repeat design of some description. This could be text, a flower or die, gems etc. The pencils are repeated in the design paper, the strips of paper on the right are repeated and tags are repeated.

SUPPLIES:
Digital Image: KD School Days Kit @ Diane’s Daydream Designs
Cardstock: Bazzill (Blue, white)
Patterned Paper: design come in the digital stamp and then I printed it on Bazzill White cardstock.
Inks: pre-colored digital image printed on Canon Inkjet Printer
Accents/Tools: pop dots, Making Memories Tag maker

You rock!

The product category in the August Card Challenge @ Scrapbook.com is to use a recycled item. Well, Karen totally inspired this card because she used a mail flyer on her card. I never thought to look at my mail for scrapbook inspiration so I headed out to my “in box” for mail. And to my surprise was a coupon flyer from Office Depot and it had this printed on one side. It was scratched up in a spot from being mailed so I took my sand paper to it to make it look like it was suppose to be distressed! I cut it out and pop dotted it onto the card. The design of the card was inspired by Sweet Sunday Sketch #231…I just left the circle off.

SUPPLIES:
Saying was cut out of an Office Depot mail flyer
Cardstock: Bazzill ( Sunshine, Intense Kiwi), Hobby Lobby (turquoise), orangish color – unknown
Accent/Tools: black pen, pop dots, cutter bee scissors

School Girl

I wanted to make a card for my niece to wish her well in school this year. I thought this image by Diane’s Daydream Design would be perfect for a 7th grader.

The background needed something but I didn’t have an embossing template that I liked for this. So I got out my scor-pal and made my own design based on the plaid in the skirt. I think it turned out pretty good!

CHALLENGES:
1) August Card Challenge @ Scrapbook.com – Technique – Stitching
2) Sketch-N-Scrap Card Sketch #31 – use the sketch provided as inspiration
3) Creative Card Crew Challenge #68 – embossing
4) Catch the Bug Challenge – August Bingo Challenge – Bold colors, embossing, school (I think those are bold colors!)
5) A Gem of a Challenge #126 – Stitching

SUPPLIES:
Image: School Days KD Kit @ Diane’s Daydream Designs
Cardstock: Bazzill (Candy Apple, Classic Yellowgreen, white)
Inks: pre-colored digital stamp printed on canon inkjet printer
Accents/Tools: Scor-pal, white floss, Lasting Impressions stitching template

All you need is love….

and a few Doodle Pantry stamps then you will be ready for Valentine’s Day!! Which is not far away since it is January 1, 2014!!! Happy New Year!!

Today is first Doodle Pantry release of 2014!! I got to work with 2 digital image sets this month.

First up is Kissy Lips. I made two cards that are similar because I couldn’t decide what I liked better!

I used MOJO Monday 325 sketch for my inspiration. I also decided to to make them shiny by putting Glossy Accents on them. They went from dull to shiny just like real lips when you add gloss or lipstick to them!

The second card I made used an SVG file – Hearts Galore and a re-release of Loving Critters Digital Image (use to be a Clearly Digi Stamp). The cool thing about the Heart Galore SVG file is that it also come with JPEG and PNG images too. And to make it even sweeter Laurie is offering Free with purchase between Jan 1-9th.

Inside: Happy Valentine’s Day!

This is the second card I made using the sketch below. This time I stayed pretty true to the sketch.

CHALLENGE:

1) Day 362 @ 365 Cards – Playing with Sharp Objects. For this challenge, we want to see you use at least 2 “sharp” tools to create your card. I used Cutterbee Scissors and an Xacto knife (cut out inside of the lambs legs)

SUPPLIES:

Kissy Lips:

 

Just for Ewe:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Between the pages of a Book!

I am really happy with this card!! I finally made a CAS card that I like! I don’t do CAS and it is usually hard for me but this one came together pretty easily. I also love that it was inspired by Sketch #4 at the September Card Sketch Challenge @ Scrapbook.com. Instead of 5 small hexagons I made one big one. I wanted to do this sketch but it had me stumped for a bit….but not any longer! I was also inspired by Ceal’s card @ Simply Beautiful Blog and took the sentiment from it.  I also went with the simple scheme to follow challenge #208 at ColourQ Blog – black, white and a splash of one color.

But most importantly I made this card for my niece to encourage her to read books. She is struggling in reading so I plan on sending this to her to help her along.

Challenges:

1) Catch the Bug Challenge – September photo challenge – school theme

2) A Gem of a Challenge #99 – use black on your card

3) Day 270 @ 365 Cards – Keep it Simple. Use only 3 items on your card – any three items, not including the sentiment.

4) Send a Smile 4 Kids Challenge – Anything Goes (as long as it is for a kid)

5) September Card Challenge @ Scrapbook.com – Photo inspiration category

Supplies:

Digital Image: Bookworms Digital Image (last day to get it at Clearly Digi Stamps)

Accents/Tools: Spellbinders Hexagon Dies, pop dots, Zig black pen, computer

Original Sketch: CAS(e) this Sketch #37

Time for school!!

Come play with us at Clearly iStamp Blog Challenge #5 – School Time. Any project to do with school will work.

I used The Sweet Stop Sketch #222 for my inspiration.

CHALLENGE:

1) Alphabet Challenge Blog – N for Newest stamp or Decoupage  We would love to see your projects using your recently purchased stamp or decoupage. This is brand new digital stamp released on Aug 15th at Clearly Digi Stamps.

SUPPLIES:

Image/Stamps: Chalk Talk Digital Image @ Clearly Digi Stamps

Cardstock: Bazzill (Black, Red, Kraft, White)

Inks: pre-colored digital image printed on Canon inkjet printer

Accents/Tools: pop dots

Time to showcase NEW JULY Digital Images from Clearly Digi Stamps

I’m on vacation but have been non stop crafting or running errands…..doing all the things that pile up while you work!! Not complaining as I have a lot of request for cards right now so I’m glad I’m on vacation and have time to make then and ENJOY the process.

Enough about that check out the JULY NEW RELEASES at Clearly Digi Stamps!! I’m only previewing two stamps that my husband designed but had several ideals pop up when I saw the other images…just ran out of time!!

The first one is from the Dino’s Digital Image at Clearly Digi Stamps:

I remembered I had this OLD Basic Grey paper that was dinosaur theme so I took it out to see if it would match. This paper was just perfect for it….but as I started working on it I felt it looked like a grown-up card not a kid card. But I went with it anyway and really like the card BUT then Lori reminds me I could of used “Older then Dirt” and made it a birthday card for an adult!! Duh…why didn’t I think of that!! I used Seize the Birthday Sketch #20 as my inspiration.

CHALLENGES:

1) 613 Avenue Create Challenge #28– Birthday

2) Seize the Birthday – Anything Birthday Challenge

3) Card Makin’ Mamas Challenge #72 – Monochromatic

4) Crafty Creations Challenge #230 – Pun Fun

The second card has to do with School…I know seems to early to think about school but actually its not that far away here in the mid west. School starts around Aug 12 so I asked my husband to do a School Theme set for all those BACK TO SCHOOL projects. This is what he came up with – Time for School Digital Image

The other DT members made wonderful cards with the Book Worm and Boy with Backpack so I decided to use the Apple with Worm. I’m actually going to send this to my friend who is a teacher and has been having some “trying” school years lately. The school she is in is in a rough area and the stories she tells is amazing. The school is getting a new principal this year and that can make or break a school year for a teacher. She is an amazing teacher with over 25 years experience so I thought I would send her some encourage as the school year starts next month. I used the Deconstruction Sketch #107 as my inspiration for the design.

CHALLENGES:

1) Addicted to Stamps Challenge #60 – Lots of Layers.

2) A Gem of a Challenge #88 – Spot/Stripes or Both

SUPPLIES:

Dino Birthday Card

Stamp/Images: Dinos, sentiment – Tiny Dinos
Cardstock: Bazzill
Patterned Papers: Basic Grey (Archaic)
Inks: pre-colored digital image printed on Canon Inkjet Printer
Accents/Tools: Cricut, Basic George Cricut Cartridge, paper distresser

Time For School – Teacher Card

Stamps/Images: Time for School
Cardstock: Bazzill
Patterned Paper: Fancy Pants Designs (My Family)
Inks: pre-colored digital image printed on Canon Inkjet Printer
Accents/Tools: brads, Cricut, Basic George Cricut cartridge, pop dots

Gift Idea Tuesday at Clearly iStamp

Come check out how to make these simple and cute paper notepads that will easily fit in your purse! Go to Clearly iStamp Blog

Stamps/Images: Baking Bear Digital Stamp
Cardstock: Bazzill (Kachina)
Patterned Paper: Digital Paper included in Baking Bear Digital Stamp
Inks: pre-colored digital image printed on Canon Inkjet Printer
Accents/Tools: buttons, ribbon, xyron sticker maker, scor-tape, notepad paper, x-acto knife
Technique: 3D project, notepad for purse, gift idea

Stamps/Images: Pencil Talk Digital Image
Cardstock: Bazzill (Sunbeam)
Patterned Paper: Reminisce (Chalkboard Fun)
Accents/Tools: scor-tape, ribbon, Fiskars scallop edge punch
Techniques: Paper Pieced, Gift Idea
Sketch: Sketch Saturday #259

A lady at work saw the notebook and asked to buy it! Then she requested a card to go with it. So I did a matching card.

CHALLENGE:

1) Papertake Weekly Challenge – If the paper fits… (Paper Piece). The pencil is paper pieced.

Stamps/Images: Howdy Partner Digital Image
Cardstock: Bazzill (Raven, white)
Patterned Paper: Fancy Pants Designs (The Good Life – Enjoy), Digital paper included in Howdy Partner Digital Image
Inks: pre-colored digital stamp printed on Canon Inkjet Printer
Accents/Tools: brad, circle punch, Cricut, Basic George Cricut Cartridge (tag)
Technique: gift idea, 3d project

Sketch: Tuesday Morning Sketches #198

Challenge #4 – Use the sketch as inspiration!

Here is our last Challenge at Clearly iStamp for the night in honor of National Scrapbook Day!! BUT IF YOU HAVEN’T DONE CHALLENGE #1 YOU STILL HAVE TIME. It doesn’t end till Sunday at noon. So grab a free or dollar stamp and come play. You could win $10.00 in free digital stamps!!

Challenge #4 – Use the sketch provide as inspiration!

Sketch comes from Sept 2011 Card Maps on Pagemaps.com

I have the best husband EVER!! I have several graduation cards to make for church and I love graduation stamps BUT the problem lies in that I’m not good coloring with black (well most colors but for sure black!). So I batted my eyelashes and asked my husband who is VERY GOOD with photoshop if he could color the cap in for me. He asked how I wanted it and I told him and showed him a picture of the wonderful cards the ladies had made for samples with this image. He colored this cap in to look like it was water colored!!! Is that not AWESOME or what!!! I’m truly spoiled….don’t tell him though….it will be our secret!! I got the design for the card from the sketch above so all I had to do was pick out papers! Got to love that!

It has been a long day for me so I think I’m going to go crash on my pillow.

SUPPLIES:

Stamps/Images: ConGRADulations Graduate Digital Images
Cardstock: Bazzill (Raven, White)
Patterned Paper:
Inks: Image colored in Photoshop
Accents/Tools: floss, Cricut, Cricut Elegant Edges Cartridge
Sketch: Sept 2011 Card Map from Pagemaps.com